Preparing the Human Rights Day at UNESCO Headquarters

Sorbonne University UNESCO Club will celebrate on December 13th the Human Rights Day together with the UNESCO Federation of France at UNESCO Headquarters.

More information about the Human Rights Day at the page of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights :

« Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The formal inception of Human Rights Day dates from 1950, after the Assembly passed resolution 423 (V) inviting all States and interested organizations to adopt 10 December of each year as Human Rights Day.

 

When the General Assembly adopted the Declaration, with 48 states in favor and eight abstentions, it was proclaimed as a « common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations », towards which individuals and societies should « strive by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance ». Although the Declaration with its broad range of political, civil, social, cultural and economic rights is not a binding document, it inspired more than 60 human rights instruments which together constitute an international standard of human rights. Today the general consent of all United Nations Member States on the basic Human Rights laid down in the Declaration makes it even stronger and emphasizes the relevance of Human Rights in our daily lives.

 

The High Commissioner for Human Rights, as the main United Nations rights official, and her Office play a major role in coordinating efforts for the yearly observation of Human Rights Day. »

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ABOUTUS/Pages/HumanRightsDay.aspx

 

Aleksandar Protic: allocution at the UN European Center for Peace and Development

The ECPD International Conference « Reconciliation, Tolerance and Human Security in the Balkans- The new Balkans and EU : peace, development , integration« 
took place at the Belgrade City Hall from 24-25 October 2014 gathering top-to-top personalities.The annual invite-only conference was focused on maintaining stable peace, creating conditions for a balanced and versatile development and accelerating the integration processes on the whole continent based on the fundamental European values are carried out in volatile and uncertain circumstances which bring gradual, but also rapid shaping of the multi-polar future world.
Aleksandar Protic had the opportunaty to deliver his allocution together with H.E. BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI Former UN Secretary-General, H.E. Mr FEDERICO MAYOR, Former Director General of UNESCO and President of the Culture of Peace Foundation, Prof. Dr. ERHARD BUSEK , Vice-Chancellor of Austria a.d. and Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, with many Academicians Ambassadors, University Deans, etc.

 

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The European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD) as part of the University for Peace was established by the United Nations.The ECPD was awarded the Peace Messenger Award by the United Nations Secretary General, in recognition of its significant contribution to the programme and objectives of the International Year of Peace (1987), proclaimed by the United Nations United General Assembly.
More information on the website of the ECPD.
More information about the agenda and speakers.

Rencontre avec les clubs UNESCO de Russie

Rencontre avec la délégation des clubs UNESCO de RUSSIE à Paris le 29 Octobre 2014

 

 

Participants de la Russie: 

 
1. -Des écoliers de l’école polytechnique avec les cours approfondis des 
langues, physique et mathématiques associées à l’UNESCO à Nijniy Tagil
 
2. Dmitry Vaskov-Le Président du Parlement Russe de la jeunesse de la 
Fédération des clubs, associations et centres pour l’UNESCO de l’Ural et 
Sibérie, la Fédération a le statut de la Fédération Nationale et existe 
depuis 1991. Elle compte 150 clubs UNESCO à travers toute la Russie. La 
Fédération de l’Ural et Sibérie représente la Russie à la Fédération 
Mondiale des clubs, associations et centres pour l’UNESCO.
 
3. Zhanna Nikolayevna Turina, le professeur dans l’école à Nijniy Tagil
 
L’excursion 14-16h
 
Les enfants ont beaucoup apprécié la promenade organisée par les Clubs UNESCO Sorbonne et Paris Descartes. Ils ont noté que cette promenade a été très intéressante et chaleureuse. Résultat, à l’heure où on disait “au revoir” les enfants ont été très triste et ne voulaient pas laisser partir les membres du Club UNESCO Sorbonne.
Plus d’information sur le site de la FFPU